There were some hugs and a few tears shed as students, teachers and administrators at Henry Lord Middle School parted ways late Thursday morning.

It was the last day of class for most district schools. The Henry Lord school on Amity Street, however, won’t reopen next fall.

“I think they could have prevented it,” said crossing guard Brenda Almeida, who has spent the past five years guiding students through crosswalks at intersections near the school. She will likely relocate to a crosswalk at another school at the end of the summer.

Almeida said she attended the former Henry Lord School on Tucker Street, and each of her three children had gone through the doors at the existing building. She said she has enjoyed watching the students grow from sixth-graders to eighth-graders ready to move on to high school.

She was scheduled to work only in the morning Thursday, but said she requested to work the second crossing guard shift.

“I know they tell you, ‘Don’t get attached to the kids.’ But you do,” Almeida said. “One student came up to hug me and say thank you. How can you beat that?”

For the school’s administrators and staff, it was about finishing the year on a high note.

“I was not going to let anybody give up until the last student walks through the door,” said the school’s acting principal, Scott Johnson. He said that, despite the announcement of the school’s planned closure, educators pushed along in their mission to instruct the school’s 495 students.

“We were still looking at lesson plans until last Friday. I’m very proud of students, and very proud of our staff,” said Johnson, who has taken on a job as principal at another school, in North Attleborough.

Most of the school’s eighth-graders will go to B.M.C. Durfee High School next September. Sixth- and seventh-graders have been placed in the district’s other three middle schools.

And there is a possibility that some students may return to the building if the Fall River Innovation Academy, proposed by the school department, is green-lighted to open there this fall.

But some of the school’s 29 teachers said they still don’t know where they will be teaching in a few months.

Not all the teachers interviewed wished to be identified in this story.

One sixth-grade science teacher who had started teaching at the school last November said she was “surprised” to learn of the closure “because of the caliber of teachers I found myself working with and their determination.”

She didn’t yet know where she will be teaching in the fall.

“I hope that the district figures out a way to use the wealth of talent with the teachers,” she said.

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“It’s a shame,” said one guidance counselor.

“It’s sad,” said Jason Souza, who had worked in the school for 23 years. He entered as a substitute, and this year, he was the school’s redesign coach.

“Our kids worked hard. Our teachers worked hard,” Souza said. “I just have a tremendous amount of pride.”

“We are really like a family,” said eighth-grade science teacher Eddie Abdow, shortly before giving one student a hug. “I’ve never experienced camaraderie like we had here anywhere else.”

Physical education teacher Linda Leonard said she will be moving on to Providence’s Wheeler School next fall.

“Everyone persevered,” Leonard said.

Leonard’s colleague Kerri Dias said it was also her first year at the school.

“There were a lot of challenges, but it was a great place to grow,” Dias said. She is still waiting to hear whether she will have a position in the school district next fall.

District Human Resources Executive Director Joany Santa said all of the professional status teachers from the school have secured positions. The school department has not placed some of the teachers who have nonprofessional status, but a decision should be reached within the next 15 to 30 days, Santa said.